Israel sentences Palestinian astrophysicist to 7 months in prison for ’incitement’
Oct. 9, 2016 8:21 P.M. (Updated : Oct. 9, 2016 8:21 P.M.)
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Israeli authorities sentenced Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi to seven months in prison on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The group said in a statement that the Israeli military court in Ofer had announced its sentencing of the 54-year-old resident of Beit Rima to seven months in prison, starting from the date of his detention in late April.
The court also issued Barghouthi a fine of 2,000 shekels ($527).
A professor of theoretical space plasma physics at al-Quds University in occupied East Jerusalem, Barghouthi had been detained in 2014 before his detention in April, when he was placed under administrative detention — Israel’s policy of internment without charge or trial.